Legendary American evangelist Billy Graham, 96, commented on today's changing culture, warning that God's laws about sex and morality "are absolute and unchangeable" and that those who engage in sexual immorality, as well as those "who encourage others to indulge in immoral practices" will one day face God's "wrath."
"From the very beginning, God has given us moral laws governing the subject of sex that are absolute and unchangeable," Graham said in a radio broadcast that was re-published in the September issue of Decision Magazine. "Nowhere does the Bible teach that sex in itself is a sin. But from Genesis to Revelation, the Bible condemns the wrong use of sex."
"According to the Bible, morals are not relative. They are absolute," he stressed. "There is nothing in the Bible that would lead us to believe that God has ever lowered His standards. The seventh commandment says, 'You shall not commit adultery.'"
Graham said that commandment has never been revoked or changed in the slightest degree, so what was considered wrong in the beginning is still wrong today in God's sight, no matter what society currently says.
Those who are making excuses to indulge in sins will one day be judged by God, said Graham.
He said he feels bad that many magazines nowadays are filled with "obscene literature."
"Our young people have very little restraint placed on them. In many universities religion is frowned on and sexual freedom is idolised," he said.
The preacher also believes that legislation cannot cure or fix the "moral degradation" which America is currently suffering from.
"The truth that is often overlooked is that while we become deeply concerned and rightly take steps to curb the evil, legislation cannot work a cure in these things," said Graham. "Many people are confident that legislation will solve our problem. Our problem is deeper than that. It is the constant problem of the individual sinner before God."
